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KuppingerCole’s Advisory Notes are short reports that present information about a specific topic, company, or product. Advisory Notes are published on a regular basis and are aimed at the management of a company. An Advisory Note gives usage recommendations and helps decision makers solve specific problems.
Firewalls Are Dead - How to Build a Resilient, Defendable Network
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Firewalls Are Dead - How to Build a Resilient, Defendable Network
The firewall is dead – long live the firewall.... In today’s modern business the traditional firewall model, sitting at the corporate perimeter, has little value, and more often than not hinders...
Mobile Biometrics for Authentication and Authorization
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Mobile Biometrics for Authentication and Authorization
Many new biometric technologies and products have emerged in the last few years. Biometrics have improved considerably, and are now increasingly integrated into smartphones. Mobile biometric...
Plant Automation Security
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Plant Automation Security
Industrial Computer Systems (ICS) are increasingly coming under attack as hackers are realizing the economic and reputational benefit of a successful operations technology system compromise....
Enterprise role management done right
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Enterprise role management done right
Role-based access control (RBAC) has become an important part of Access Management and Access Governance. However, defining, implementing and maintaining an enterprise role model remains a...
Sustainable Infrastructures through IT Compliance
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Sustainable Infrastructures through IT Compliance
Well-designed, state-of-the-art compliance programs help in maintaining an adequate IT architecture and its underlying processes. Forward-thinking organisations understand compliance as a strategic...
Consumer Identity and Access Management for “Know Your Customer”
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Consumer Identity and Access Management for “Know Your Customer”
Consumer Identity and Access Management systems and services provide new technical capabilities for organizations to know their customers better. Implementing CIAM can provide better user...
KYC as an Enabler in the Financial Services Business Transformation
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KYC as an Enabler in the Financial Services Business Transformation
The Financial Services Industry (FSI) is undergoing unprecedented evolutionary and revolutionary change. FSIs need to transform their business models to respond to today’s challenges and to...
Information Stewardship in the Age of Blockchain
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Information Stewardship in the Age of Blockchain
Blockchain seems to be one of the most important basic technologies of emerging business models and countless entrepreneurial initiatives using it have been started in the recent past. This...
Rising to the Security Challenge of Heavy Cloud Adoption
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Rising to the Security Challenge of Heavy Cloud Adoption
Many enterprises have decided on a “cloud first” strategy, or have seen heavy cloud adoption evolve spontaneously as their business units embrace cloud for cost savings, agility or other...
The Impact of Blockchains on Business Process Management and Optimisation
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The Impact of Blockchains on Business Process Management and Optimisation
Distributed and decentralised ledger technology with Smart Contracts and the Internet of Things (IoT) can enhance BPM (Business Process Management) and BPO (Business Process Optimisation) processes...